Looks like even the NRA isn’t extreme enough for some people. In a letter from Senator Tina Smith (D-MN), she mentions NAGR:
I received an interesting thing in the mail recently — a survey from the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR). They bill themselves as a “conservative alternative” to the NRA.
From the NAGR web-site:
With our rapidly expanding membership of 4.5 million grassroots activists, the National Association for Gun Rights has led the charge to halt the radical anti-gun agenda across the nation. Accepting NO COMPROMISE on the issue of gun control, NAGR works tirelessly to hold politicians accountable for their anti-gun views, and has made great strides in protecting and preserving the Second Amendment. But our effectiveness in the battle against the gun grabbers depends entirely on the support of gun rights supporters like you.
Hard to say if they’re more conservative than the NRA. Actually, it’s a little difficult to cite this as a conservative position – gun control has long been a traditional position in the United States, only having changed in the last twenty years or so. At one time, the NRA supported sensible positions. The transformation to an absolutist position on gun rights is a recent phenomenon, not particularly of a conservative stripe.
Still, it looks like another ideological purity race, doesn’t it? Which organization can embrace a more absolutist position on gun rights, all in a land of limited rights. All I can think is the folks running NAGR are just a bunch of power-hungry boys, given the extreme positions of the NRA. Perhaps NAGR is why the NRA has taken such ridiculous positions. Another lesson in the foolishness of absolute rights begins to come into focus.
